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And you’ll save yourself a trek to Brooklyn or Manhattan. I’m betting you’ll find something for somebody on your holiday gift list - and maybe for yourself. There’s a party from 6-9 p.m., when Doug Gillard (Guided By Voices, Nada Surf, Death of Samantha), will stop in before his show at Prohibition River to sign records and possibly play a few songs. (I hope to get there sometime on opening day.) If you can’t be there when the doors open, please stop in sometime soon to check out O’Connor’s shop. It looks like O’Connor’s really committed to Nyack. Now she’ll be selling (and buying) new and used vinyl albums, books, clothing, and more in her new shop across the street from the restaurant. She’s already started presenting music at Prohibition River.

O’Connor, an established artist, who mad two well-received albums for Matador and three other independent discs, moved to Nyack from Brooklyn in 2012. Now Nyack singer-songwriter Jennifer O’Connor, who already has her own record label, Kiam, is expanding the brand by opening The Kiam Records Shopin a much more visible location: 95 Main Street, next to the Olde Village Inn.

More recently, there was the nearly invisible subterranean Vinyl Lounge on Broadway, but that’s closed.

I can’t recall the name of it, but it It was a pretty substantial place.īut it left town many years ago, moving to Nanuet - in the small strip center on Route 59 that’s home to the kids’ barber, Tiny Trims - before disappearing altogether. Unless my memory is truly failing me, it was Pic-a-Disc at Main and Franklin, in the space now home to Murasaki Japanese restaurant. I remember the days when Nyack had a big record shop. Friday, Nyack will have a record store again. As if that weren’t enough, the NPR post also carries the warning label “ LANGUAGE ADVISORY: This song contains sexually explicit language,” and uses the terms “a shocking turn” and “NSFW (not safe for work)” in the text.īig news: At 11 a.m. NPR’s “All Songs Considered” praises the work while falling all over itself to call out the song’s frankness, using “graphically” in its headline.

Marsh/)If you’re a curiosity seeker who decided to check out singer-songwriter Amy Bezunartea because you heard - or heard about - the NSFW lyrics in her new single, “Oh the Things a Girl Must Do,” good for you.īut stick around, there’s more - a lot more - to this artist than one line that incorporates slang for vagina: Available online at Ticketfly by clicking here.Īmy Bezunartea performs at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3 on Sept. Tickets: $30, including brunch, concert, and cocktail.

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I had a chance to spend an hour talking with Mooke about the project, her career, and her life in Nyack.Ĭlick here to read the full interview I wrote for The Journal News/.Īnd be sure to check out her live performance on Sunday. “I slip through the cracks of defined boundaries,” she says.

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She’s no ordinary violist, so it’s fitting that her new disc, with its beautifully rhythmic, meditative tunes that open windows that offer a peek at the sonic world of her imagination, is titled “No Ordinary Window.” Veteran electro-acoustic violist Martha Mooke is unleashing her new CD on the world with a brunch and concert on Sunday, Jan. Pioneering composer and electro-acoustic violist Martha Mooke of Nyack at the Art Cafe in Nyack on Nov.

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